Apparatus for distributing and filling cigarettes into cases.



L. CHAMBON.

APPARATUSFOR DISTRIBUTING AND FILLING CIGARETTES'INTO CASES.

APPLICATION FILED MAR 3h I914- 1,156,4=65. Patented Oct. 12; 1915.

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APPLICATION FILED MAR. 31. 1914.

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APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING AND FILLING CIGARETTES INTO CASES.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 31. 1914.

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APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING AND FILLING CIGARETTES INTO CASES.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 31. 19M.

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APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING AND FILLING CIGARETTES INTO CASES.

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APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING AND FILLIlSTG GIG-ARET'IES INTO CASES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented net. 12, i915.

Original application filed January 3, 1913 SerialNo. 739,954. Divided. and this application filed March 31, 1914. Serial No. 828,531.

1 b all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, Louis CHAMBON, citizen of the Republic of France, residing at Paris, France, have invented new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Distributing and Filling Cigarettes into Cases, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for distributing and filling cigarettes into cases, which have been previously formed, and are presented to the apparatus in finished condition, but with open mouths.

The herein described invention was described and illustrated in my U. S. application Serial No. 739,954 filed January 3, 1913, of which the present application is a divi sion.

Taken as a whole, the said apparatus comprises the combination of the following device: a device for receiving the cases or boxes, previouslymanufactured by any suitable machine, but having their mouths open;

a device for distributing the. cigarettes into the said cases; a device for 'gumming and closing the finished and filled cases;- and,

finally, a device for receiving and distribute ing the filled cases. The said apparatus is generally combined withanother apparatus or machine, not described in details in the present specification, because it forms: the sub'iect matter of the copendant application, above specified. ll.his. previous machine comprises several devices having, respec tively, for their purposes: to draw from a bobbin the paper reviously printed and perforated, which is to serve for making the case; to measure the said paper to'the correct size; to gum it at suitable parts 3- to stretch it, and at the same time trace or mark on it the folds along the necessary lines; and to cut and fold the paper, in order to construct the case without immediately closing this latter, so as to leave it ready to receive the cigaretteswith which it is to be filled.

An apparatus constructed inaccordance with the invention is shown byway of. ex ample in the accompanyin drawings.

Figure 1 is a side elevation, of: thewhole of the machine. Fig. 2 is an elevation in. a vertical plane parallel to the longitudinal axis of the machine, showing a wheeled device for receiving the empty cases, having their mouths open, and transporting them, when filledwith cigarettes, to the device for gumniing and closing the cases. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on line III-III of Fig. 2, of the said device. Fig. l is a section on line IV-IV of Fig.5, showing the device for distributing the cigarettes in the cases. Fig. 5 is an elevation, partly in section in a plane at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the machine, of the said device. F ig. 6 is anelevation in a vertical plane parallel to the longitudinal axis of the machine showing the device for gumm'ing and closing the finished and filled cases. Fig. 7 is an elevation in a plane at right. angles to the longitudinal axis of the machine, of the said device. I

The same reference numerals indicate the same parts in the several figures.

The whole of the machine is represented diagrammatically in Fig. 1, wherein A is the bobbin of paper previously printed and perforated, B the device for distributing the paper, C the gumming device, D the device for stretching the paper and marking the folds, E the device for cutting and folding the paper, in order to make the cases with their mouths open.

lVhen theyhave left the device E the case are received by a wheel F, which will be clescribed in detail with reference to Figs. 2 and 3 of the accompanying drawings. The cigarettes are now distributed and introduced into the cases by means of device G, which willbe described in detail with reference to Figs. l and 5 of the drawings.

Finally, the finished and filled cases are gummed and glued by a device H, which will be described with reference to Figs. 6

and 7 of the drawings, and the closed cases are transferred into a distributing boX Lat the discharge end of which they are received by the operator.

The device F having for its purpose to receive the cases in finished condition with open months is constructed in the manner now tobe detailed with reference to Figs. 2 and. 3 of the drawings. This device consists ofa wheel comprising two circular and parallel plates 37 and 38, of which 38 is.

cell 40. The slides move in radial grooves 4:1 in thesaid plates, at equal distances apart in the faces of the plates which are turned toward each other. The device in question is driven. from the longitudinal shaft ofthe machine by means of worm gear 42, the

' movement of which is transmitted through gears 42, 43, 44 to two shafts 43 and 4% on which are mountedv the cams actuating the mechanism. 7 V

The wheel which receives the cases is mounted free on a fixed horizontal shaft 45 and is controlled in known manner by a cam 38 through a roller 38', this cam turning with the shaft as; On each side of the wheel outside. the plates 37 and 38 are mounted two fixed pieces 45", each provided with an annular groove 45 wherein engage the rollers 39 of the slides 39, which rollers are thuskept at the bottom of the grooves 41, while the receiving wheel rotates; The

' pieces 45 are also provided with two notches displaces the slide in the grooves 41 and.

45 and 45 which open into the grooves aforesaid and of which the function "will presently be explained. v

When one of the cells ofthe receiving wheel arrives opposite the notch 4:5 the open orifice of whichis in the plane of the case to be received, a'lever 46 which carries at its upper parta notch 47 and is controlled by a cam lever 48 co-acting with a cam d9 keyed onshaft 43 is then displaced so as to bring its notch l7 into the groove at the bottom ofthe notch 45 The roller 39 of the slide'corresponding with the aforesaid cell is then engaged by the said leverwhich pushes thecell sons to cause it to engage a held motionless and it is then turned through V ofa revolution in the direction from left synchronism between the operation of :the' apparatus which forms the cases and that 7 case. 7 The cells 40 are for this purpose constructed so as to fit over a case, to seize this latter, and to disengage it. from its support when'the slide 39 returns toward the center of the distributing wheel under the action of lever 4:6. Obviously during these move ments the wheel for receiving the cases'is to right, to bring the cell of the next slide opposite the notch 45 of the plate 45'. Of course there must be suitable and certain of the wheel which receives them. a After eight successive movements of th wheel the cell carrying the formed case,

which it has taken in the mannerdes'cribed,

is in the diametrically opposite position to thatwhich it originally had. At this mo;

ment the rollers of the slide are engaged by a mechanism analogous to the preceding,

controlled byra lever 50, which carries at its upper end a notch 51 andis actuated by a cam lever 52 co-acting with a cam 53 keyed on shaft In order to insure the correct working of the levers 50, the plates 45 are provided with notches as 45 (Fig; 2) hav: ing for their purpose to permit thedisengagement of the slides from the clrcular grooves 45 and their passage into the radialgrooves e1 in the parallel plates 37, 38.

This mechanism is for the purpose of bringing the case opposite the device G which distributes the cigarettes to be filled into the case andis constructedin the following manner (Figs. 4 and 5). Like the devices already described, the said device is driven from the longitudinal shaft of the machine by a worm gear 54, keyed on shaft 55, which carries the cams controlling the several parts of the apparatus. 'The shaft 55 also carries the worm gear 56, meshing with gear 56 which drives a transverse shaft 57 whereon is keyed a cam lever 58 adapted to operate a Maltese cross 59. As the latter is moved it entrains around its axle 60 a blade wheel 61 which extends into a box 62 containing the cigarettes. A. small notched cylinder 63 turns withthe wheel 61, with which it is positively connected by gears 63, 63", 63 driven by the said wheel. This small cylinder is for the purpose of preventing the cigarettes as they leave the containing boxfro-m coming between the blade wheel and the box.

As they leave the box the cigarettes are supported by a small table 64 having two projections 64 which engage in corresponding. notchesin the blade wheel 61.

When the wheel that receives the formed caseshas brought by its rotationin the aforesaid manner one of the cases into the position in which the slide thatcarriedit is subject to the action" of the lever 50, the

blade wheel is movedin' such a manner as rettes so as to facilitate their introduction into the case which is moved forward under the action of lever 50 together with the slide and the corresponding cell. The hand66 is then raised by thedesired'amount so as to relieve the pressure from the cigarettes which are then introduced into the case by a pusher 67 mounted on two rods 68 sliding in sockets 69 and controlled by a connecting rod 70 driven by a cam lever 71 co-acting with a cam 72. hen this operation is finished all the mechanisms return to their original positions and the receiving wheel isaga'in moved through of a revolution to take a fresh case from its support and to present a fresh case to the distributer G. The case filled with cigarettes is thus brought by the saidwheel to the upper part of the vertical diametric plane of the latter to be gummed and closed and then transferred to a receiving boxg these, operations being performed :bythe devices'described with referenceto. Figs. .2, 8,*6-2 1'1Ql;7,7

At one ofthe periodsof rest of, the;dis tributing wheel, the rollers of .the slide which are in the grooves 41 situated' opposite the notches 45 aforesaid; areengaged by a lever 73 mounted on a. rocking shaftjl driven by a lever. 75, connecting "rody7 6- and a lever:77 fixed to the shaftoflever 5.0 which controls the mechanism I for presenting the cases. tetherv cigarette distributing device which has just been described. The cell carried by the slide in question andcontaining a case filled with cigarettes is thus'raised by lever 73, and a finger.78icarried.by a cam lever 7 9 operated by the cam 79 engages beneath the case in-a notch 80 in the'slide- 39.

During the first part of the receding move ment of the said slide under action of the lever 73, the case retained by the finger 7 8 is then half disengaged from the cell 10 which carried it, so as to allow the folding down of the closing flap. This flap during the first receding movement of the cell receives a drop of gum from a finger 81, carried by the cam lever 82 controlled by a cam 83 and adapted to rock on a shaft 84. The gum deposited by the finger 81 is distributed by a cylinder 85 which turns Within an adjustable box 86 forming a rake in known manner. This gum is taken by a roller 87 mounted on a cam lever 88 operated by a cam 89. When the flap has been gummed the finger 81 recedes under action of the cam lever 82.

During the second receding movement of the cell a folder 90, mounted on a lever 91 operated by connecting rod 92 controlled by a cam lever 93 and a cam 94, folds the closing flap on to the case maintaining the latter pressed against the pusher 95. This pusher is mounted like the folder on a carriage 96 sliding in cheeks 97, 97 and moved to and fro through cam levers 98 controlled by cams 99. The pusher pushes the finished, filled and closed cases into the receiving box 1. During the pushing the case is still held by the folder 90 which onlydisengages itself when the case held by the clamps 100 has come into contact with and is pressed against the cases previously introduced into the box I. The cams 83, 89, 94, 99 which control the various parts of the device which has just been described are driven from the longitudinal shaft of the machine. For this purpose they are keyed on a shaft 101 which is driven through a series of toothed wheels 102, 103, 10a and 105: the last named turning freely on the axle 45 of the receiving and distributing wheel 37, 38 and being driven by the wheel 42 aforesaid, Figs. 2 and 3.

Having thus described my invention and the best means I know of carrying the same into practical effect, I claim:

1. In an improved apparatus for distrib 1 at? e i-uting and filling cigarettes. into cases,;p1'e

viously; formed and presented to the apparatusinquestionwith open mouths, and for gumming. and closing the :filled cases, and for. transferring fiIliLllYgfillQ same to a receivingbox, a device; adapted to receive the -inittently,pradial grooves inthe said cheeks,

Slides adapted to move inathepsaidgrooves, tl2:c31liCZl l'1'16d.;by each slide, lateral rollers carried by each slide; stationary ycircular grooves adapted to engage the said lateral rollers and-= thereby to I retain the said-slides at=the inner ends of the said radial grooves, notches in the said circular grooves, to per mit disengagement of the said rollers there from at the correct periods of time and positions, oscillating levers adapted to engage by their ends the said rollers, operating devices moving the said levers so as to push outwardly the slide and corresponding cell when the checks are at rest, the arrangement being such that the cell is brought on to the forming block of the machine and takes therefrom a cigarette case, and by following rotary movements of the said checks is then brought opposite a table for distributing the cigarettes and filling the case therewith, and by further rotary movements of the said cheeks the filled case is brought to the apparatus for gumming and closing it, whereafter the slide which carried the case is returned to the inner ends of the grooves which carry it. s

2. In an improved apparatus for distrib uting and filling cigarettes into cases, previously formed and presented to the appa ratus in question with open mouths, and for gumining and closing the filled cases, and for transferring finally the same to a receiving box, a device for gumming and closing the filled case and for transferring it to a receiving box, comprising a movable finger adapted to engage beneath the case so as to detach it from the cell during the return'movement of the latter, a movable finger adapted to gum the closing flap of the case, a folder adapted to fold the said flap against the case, a pusher mounted on a carriage which also carries the said folder, so that the latter presses the case against the said pusher, the arrangement being such gumming and closing the filled cases, and

"fortransferring finally the same to a receiving box, the combination of an apparatus for distributing the cases; and a device fordistributing the cigarettes and filling them into the open'cases, said device comprising a blade wheel, a box oontaining'cigarettes Whereinto the said blade Wheel extends, the said blade wheel being situated in the vertical middle plane of the apparatus Whioh'distributes the cases, the said Wheel being intermittently rotated synchronously With the apparatus Which distributes the cases; a small notched cylinder co-acting With the blade Wheel and insuring regular discharge for the cigarettes from the said box, a receiving table Whereonto the said blade Wheel brings/the cigarettes, a movable blade adapted to separate andguide the desired number of the cigarettes on the said table, a hand adapted to press lightly the cigarettes on the said table and a reciproeating pusher adapted to act on the ends ofthecigarettes and to introduce them altogether into'the case.

In testimony whereof-I have signed my name to thisspecification in the presence of tWo subscribing Witnesses. I ouis OHAMBON. Witnesses;

ANDRr': BonDILLoN, Jnnns FAYOLTET.

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